Quotables.

"I realized it was a way to respond to a public that has...

"I realized it was a way to respond to a public that has been faithful to me. I don't see anyone else with people coming up to them in Target and saying, `I love you.' "

--Actress Patty Duke, on why she changed her mind and agreed to do a reunion TV movie, "The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn," based on her old comedy series.

"It sounds like a bumper sticker: Gang-Free City. It sounds wonderful. But where do they go? Are they going to send them all to New York?"

--Jay Miller, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, on a proposed ordinance in Cicero to banish all gang members from the city and forbid them to return under any circumstances.

"It isn't a good Rembrandt."

--German Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, on why the allies might bomb President Milosevic's palace in Belgrade even at the risk of destroying a Rembrandt painting.

"Too many sharp blows to the head while I was in prison."

--Sen. John McCain, who was a POW during the Vietnam War, on his wife's explanation for his presidential campaign.